Amazon’s third annual Prime Day will be Tuesday, July 11, with hundreds of thousands of deals exclusively for Prime members around the world. New this year, members can enjoy 30 hours of deal shopping starting at 9 p.m. ET on Monday, July 10 — and new deals as often as every five minutes.

 

Alipay has signed an agreement with Han Feng Group, the leading food supplier for Chinese restaurants and supermarkets in the United States, to further expand its reach to the Chinese consumer in the U.S. The agreement calls for a pilot program to begin in the New York and North Carolina markets and roll out to empower Han Feng’s 14,000 restaurants and supermarkets.

 

Staples Inc. and private equity firm Sycamore Partners have entered into a merger agreement in which investment funds managed by Sycamore Partners will acquire the company in a transaction that values Staples at an equity value of approximately $6.9 billion.

 

Provision Interactive Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of Provision Holding Inc., announced a multi-year partnership agreement with Discount Drug Mart Inc. to install Provision’s proprietary 3D Savings Center kiosks inside Discount Drug Mart stores.

 

1-800-FLOWERS.COM has extended its relationship into 2018 with Veritone One as its exclusive agency for radio and podcast advertising to ensure speed, transparency and accuracy of broadcast advertising spends.

 

TVPage, the first video content management system that empowers merchants to source, publish and monetize video experiences, has joined the Shopify Plus Technology Partner Program to deliver shoppable video commerce experiences to Shopify Plus merchants.

 

BTM Global, a premier provider of retail system integration and development services, announced that Red Wing Shoe Company is live with Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service and EMV across its hundreds of retail stores, outlets, distributors, independent retailers and mobile stores.